The passengers and travelers in the diamond city will have an opportunity to travel to Mysuru and Udaipur destinations with the railways providing stoppage to the Mysuru Palace Queen Weekly Humsafar Express at Surat.

The ground work for the first phase to overhaul Gurgaon’s power gird — called the smart grid project — is likely to start in the next seven to 10 days, officials of discom Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam said on Thursday.In the first phase, feeder lines that transmit power from substations to homes will go underground. The foot survey for the project has been completed.

“This would reduce the state government’s dependence on power projects in private sector,” he said.The ministry of environment and forest had rejected environment clearance to the project in 2016 citing pollution concerns. However, after the BJP came to power, a team of experts from MoEF visited the site and a nod was given to the project eventually. LUCKNOW: The UP government is planning a powerpacked start to the New Year by deciding to gift a brand new super-critical 660 MW power unit at Panki in Kanpur to citizens of the state.

Metro rail could be a distant dream for residents of Bairagarh and other localities near the international airport. The agency would also construct an 8-km flyover connecting Lal Ghati to Gandhi Nagar along with a grid separator at Lal Ghati intersection and much needed rail-over-bridge at Singharcholi.